Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[NilSatisOptimum]

Were we told that?

Genuine question. I don't remember been told that we'd have millions a month vaccinated by January 1st?

In May 30 Million doses were to be available by September (2020)

Then in November it became 10 million by the end of the year.

Apparently we have loads of it, just not in vials ready to be injected.

FactCheck Q&A: how much coronavirus vaccine do we have?

All the evidence suggests the number of vaccine doses available for immediate use falls well short of the 40 million that we were originally supposed to have by this stage.

www.channel4.com

I’m suggesting this Government is more interested in headlines than competent delivery of vaccine programme to suppress this pandemic.

 

[grandjoeblue]

My grandparents will have both been vaccinated in the next couple of weeks. I was thinking that I still wouldn't really want to see them in person but they are probably as safe as they ever could be now?

 

[davek]

I keep repeating this but Asia followed the SARS model (from experience), Europe and the west followed the Flu model.

Aus and NZ followed SARS, but their contact tracing isn't as ultra strict as it is in Japan, SK etc - they have climate and population density (or lack of) on their side.

Not saying you're wrong, but just worth pointing out imo.

The UK has roughly twice as many deaths from Covid19 as the whole of south east Asia + China + the Korean Peninsula + Japan combined - TWICE AS MANY...a country of less than 67 million people has almost 80,000 deaths compared with less than 40,000 amongst over 2 billion people on the other side of the world.

This place is a basket case. The poster boy of how not to handle a pandemic. Johnnson and his fellow gangsters should be dragged out of Downing Street and face trial for mass murder.

 

[BlueDraka]

No worries mate. Yeah same with pretty much all regular consultant reviews at the mo but hopefully she'll at least get a telephone review soon anyway.

Nightmare situation this.

At least we have our single malt whiskey to look after us !!!

 

[Nymzee]

Not sure if link works but sigh. Waste of sperm.

 

[BlueToff]

The UK has roughly twice as many deaths from Covid19 as the whole of south east Asia + China + the Korean Peninsula + Japan combined - TWICE AS MANY...a country of less than 67 million people has almost 80,000 deaths compared with less than 40,000 amongst over 2 billion people on the other side of the world.

This place is a basket case. The poster boy of how not to handle a pandemic. Johnnson and his fellow gangsters should be dragged out of Downing Street and face trial for mass murder.

Fair enough. Like I said, the UK and Europe decided to follow the Flu epidemic model. It hasn't worked. There's a variety of factors for that.

 

[BlueToff]

I’m suggesting this Government is more interested in headlines than competent delivery of vaccine programme to suppress this pandemic.

I mean we've just started the vaccine roll out fully though haven't we?

Let's just see how it goes. I don't disagree with you but we're the first country to have started the roll out so hopefully we can just up the pace and keep it going. Can't roll them out until they're approved and the oxford one only was three days ago.

 

[BlueToff]

My grandparents will have both been vaccinated in the next couple of weeks. I was thinking that I still wouldn't really want to see them in person but they are probably as safe as they ever could be now?

If you're not going to go and see them after they get fully vaccinated from this then you might as well never see them again? What would you be risking?

Not having a go, but this is what this has done to people - ingrained a fear. While it's right to be cautious, if they're both vaccinated, then they are at absolutely no risk if you go to see them - or no more risk than they were of catching anything else before the pandemic, if you get me.

 

[Nymzee]

If you're not going to go and see them after they get fully vaccinated from this then you might as well never see them again? What would you be risking?

Not having a go, but this is what this has done to people - ingrained a fear. While it's right to be cautious, if they're both vaccinated, then they are at absolutely no risk if you go to see them - or no more risk than they were of catching anything else before the pandemic, if you get me.

Whilst parts of this are true it’s still against the rules to meet others outside household/bubble indoors and now more than ever we should be asking people to follow the rules a little while longer.

 

[davek]

My grandparents will have both been vaccinated in the next couple of weeks. I was thinking that I still wouldn't really want to see them in person but they are probably as safe as they ever could be now?

I would have thought that the best way forward would be to wait until A/ the current wave of infections abate and flatten out and are suppressed, and B/ more of the population as a whole has had the vaccine.

You'd probably be looking toward an Easter meet up as a safe way of approaching your grandparents.

Just my opinion.

 

[grandjoeblue]

I would have thought that the best way forward would be to wait until A/ the current wave of infections abate and flatten out and are suppressed, and B/ more of the population as a whole has had the vaccine.

You'd probably be looking toward an Easter meet up as a safe way of approaching your grandparents.

Just my opinion.

How does other people having the vaccine make it safer though? It doesn't really make an impact. I suppose if I was vaccinated as well that might add a bit more safety?

This whole pandemic is going to make seeing older family members very worrying in future years for a lot of people.

Mentally I would be extremely apprehensive to be in the same room as an 80+ year old.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Happy times...

 

[COYBL25]

How does other people having the vaccine make it safer though? It doesn't really make an impact. I suppose if I was vaccinated as well that might add a bit more safety?

This whole pandemic is going to make seeing older family members very worrying in future years for a lot of people.

Mentally I would be extremely apprehensive to be in the same room as an 80+ year old.

See them outside, that`s what I do with mine.

I know it`s freezing at the mo, but wait until it warms up a bit ?

 

[tsubaki]

Not sure if link works but sigh. Waste of sperm.

almost all of them non- Lambeth residents as well

a shame there are no lions at Vauxhall City Farm who could have escaped and mauled those fools

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Not sure if link works but sigh. Waste of sperm.

There is a right to protest however this should be disregarded to protect public health and to save lives.

These people are social terrorists and I would hit them with water cannons, rubber bullets and put them in a containment camp for the rest of the pandemic.